Aerial toy



S. HASHIMOTO.

AERIAL TOY. APPLICATION FILED AilG.l8. 19\9.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

WITNESS:

tageous aerial toy hereinafter described and SOIOHI HA SHIMOTO, OF YUIBA CITY, CALIFORNIA.

AERIAL 'roYl Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

Application filed August 18, 1919. Serial No. 818,213. e

To all whom it may concern:

iBe it known that I, SOIOHI HASHIMOTO, a

subject of the Emperor of Japan, residing at,

Yuba City, in the county of Sutter and State of California, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Aerial Toys, of which the fol owing is a specification.

The object of my present invention is, the provision of a simple, durable and safe aerial toy of the type in which by rapidly rotating a rotary member through the medium of a cord wound thereupon, a flying body may be made to make a flight of considerable height and length.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the

invention consists in the peculiar and advandefinitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby v made a part hereof:

Figure l-is a-perspective of novel complete.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is a cross-section-of the flying body] taken in the plane indicated by the line 3- 3 of Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of the handle.-

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of 'therotaryi member through the medium of which rotary motion is transmitted to the'flying' body to bringabout the flying of the latter.

Similar numerals designate correspondingparts in all of the views of the drawings, The handle 1 of my novel toy is preferably of wood and carries tallic stem 2.

Mounted to rotate about the handle stem'2 is the rotary member 3 having-loweriand upper enlargements 4' and 5 and a porti'o'nfi: between said. enlargements forthe winding of the cord 7. Carried by and extending upwardly from the upper end of the rotary member 6 are pins 8, the upper ends of which are deflected in opposite directions,

as shown. 1

In addition to the handle and the rotary member, my novel toy comprises a flying body best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and which constitutes an important element thereof.

The said flying body comprises a ring 9 of wire, of circular .form in cross-section, a circular band 1 0 greater in width than the diameter of the wire and fixedto the outer side of and surrounding said wire, and a diametrical propeller 11 fixed at its ends to opposite points of the wire 9 and having a in fixed relation a 'medistance through the air.

central aperture 12 and also having blades 13 and 14 at opposite sides of the aperture 12 and on opposite side edges of the propeller.

Manifestly it is entirely feasible to make the propeller ll of a strip of sheet-metal and to provide it with a middle portion of a width at its ends to the ring 9 by bending the said ends around the .wire of the ring and solder ing them thereto. The wire ring 9 serves the important flying body against injury when the same falls to the ground or is-impelled against a stationary object, and it also serves toprevent the flying body from cutting or otherwise injuring any persons that it may strike. The band 10 is of thin metal, and is designed and adapted to prevent injury to the blades 13 and 14 when the flying-'bodyfalls to. the ground.

In be practical use of mynovel toy, the parts are assembled as shownin Fig. 1, and

whenit is desiredto impel the flying body through the air, the cord 7 is quickly drawn off therotary member. When this is done. the flying bodywill'be rotated at a high rate of speed, and in consequence will rise out of engagement with the pins 8 and fly through the air,

, Practical experience has demonstratedthe to rest between the pins 8, and to connect it urpose of protecting the fact that by the operation described, the

flying body may be driven a considerable vHaving described my invention, what I .claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, -1s: j Y Y Anaerial toy comprising a handle having .a stem, a rotary [member mounted on said stem and adapted to be rotated through the medium of a cord wound thereon and having ajreduced intermediate portion and also having upstanding spaced pins with oppositely deflected upper portions and a flying body comprising a ring. a wide-band surrounding propeller arranged in and fixed at its ends and-fixed to said ring and a diametrical to the ring and having a central aperture to receive said stem and an intermediate portion to rest between said pins and also having blades on'its opposite longitudinal edges at opposite sides of its center and arranged to be protected by said band and to opposite sides of the pins.

In testimony whereof I afiix signature. 7

SOIOHI HASHIMOTO.

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